Music Barn

Music Barn

Waitsfield, Vermont

Architecture

Birdseye

Building

Birdseye

Acoustician

Walters-Storyk Design Group

Photography

Susan Teare

Completed

2009

Type

Recording Studio and Retreat

Recognition

2011 AIA VT Honorable Citation

2014 Seven Days: Nest: Fall Issue
2009 Perspectives on Design

An 1890s barn repurposed as a guest house and recording studio located in the mountains of the Mad River Valley.

Architecture

Architecture

The original form of the barn is newly expressed with a fieldstone foundation walkout embedded into the west facing hillside.

The original form of the barn is newly expressed with a fieldstone foundation walkout embedded into the west facing hillside.

Interiors

Interiors

The interiors of the living spaces capture the essence of the agrarian aesthetic. The recording studio reflects a contemporary vision for refined acoustic environments.

The interiors of the living spaces capture the essence of the agrarian aesthetic. The recording studio reflects a contemporary vision for refined acoustic environments.

Inspiration

Inspiration

The building was inspired by the owner’s desire to save and repurpose a 19th century Vermont barn.

The building was inspired by the owner’s desire to save and repurpose a 19th century Vermont barn.

Music Barn is designed as a retreat where musicians can live and record in an original barn structure from the 1890s.

The timber frame bent structure was acquired, disassembled, relocated, and reassembled to its current site in northern Vermont. Original barn board siding was salvaged for exterior siding as well as interior walls and exposed ceiling sheathing. Miscellaneous barn wood was salvaged and re-milled into cabinetry, doors, trim and architectural woodworking and the cupola was reconstructed to match the original. A technologically sophisticated recording studio was inserted into the space and is acoustically isolated from the adjacent living spaces.

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3104 Huntington Road


Richmond, Vermont 05477

©2025

Birdseye

3104 Huntington Road


Richmond, Vermont 05477

©2025

Birdseye